The paper examines the geography of the seas represented in the 6th-century cosmographical treatise «Christian Topography» by an anonymous author called Cosmas Indicopleustes. The specific features of geographical representation are analysed in the context of the creation of the Christian world view based on the Bible as a universal source of knowledge. We also study the role of the information Cosma gained from his travels, its interaction with the author’s theory and the degree of influence on the image of the world created by him. Particular attention is paid to the study of «Christian Topography» as a manuscript of the Early Byzantine period which contains numerous cosmographical schemes and the earliest medieval map.
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